Avoid Fines by Using a HIPAA-Compliant Video Service
Telemedicine services are an increasingly popular amenity for healthcare providers to offer patients, but unless the video service used is specifically developed ...
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The 6 Largest HIPAA Fines of 2017
Anyone handling protected health information (PHI), as defined under HIPAA, accepts a strong obligation to protect it. Transferring or storing ...
The eNLC Is Changing the Future of Healthcare
The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) has been implemented as of January 19, 2018. This means that any nurse living in an eNLC ...
New Budget Deal Expands Telehealth Reimbursement
The Telehealth services industry has a new victory over a former foe—reimbursement barriers. The 2017 KLAS and CHIME research survey reports that ...
Never Underestimate the Importance of HIPAA Compliance
Am I HIPAA compliant? This question ought to be foremost in the minds of medical providers, as the vast implications ...
House Passes Important Telemedicine Bill Concerning Veterans
Towards the end of 2017, the House passed a major bill concerning all Veterans regarding health care. It’s called the ...
What You Need to Know About Net Neutrality
On December 14th, 2017 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal net neutrality rules put in place in 2015 under Title ...
Texas Senate Bill Eases Telemedicine Restrictions
Significant legislation concerning Telemedicine and Telehealth Services was enacted in Texas when Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1107 into law on ...
Telemedicine: The Future of Healthcare
Telehealth is a way of delivering medical and educational services via virtual technology. With recent advents in technology, along with ...
Videoconferencing Technology Reduces Hospital Readmission Rates
Telecommunication tactics are transforming our healthcare platforms. More specifically, using HIPAA compliant videoconferencing to create virtual clinics has majorly opened ...
Using Telehealth to Tackle Opioid Addiction in America
The bad news is in: opioids are killing twice as many people each year in the United States than firearm and motor vehicle-related ...
Telehealth Technology Transforms Healthcare
Video conferencing technologies are rapidly gaining traction in the United States as a way to improve access to medical care and ...
Physical Therapists in These 10 States Need to See This
The Physical Therapy Licensure Compact introduced in 2014 has just met the requirements it needs to allow licensed PTs to ...
Texas Senate Bill Tackles Huge Telemedicine Hurdle
After a six-year conflict between the Texas Medical Board and Teladoc, Texas lawmakers just removed a state rule requiring providers ...
The House Passed the AHCA with a 217-213 vote, now what?
The Affordable Care Act that brought health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans is now being threatened by the GOP’s ...
Release: require payment, session usage lookup, plan types
This article covers number of updates that we released this past weekend. Require Payment Users can now set a payment ...
What You Need in a HIPAA-Compliant Video Platform
Deciding on what to look for when starting a Telehealth solution may seem simple. All you need is video, right? ...
Trumpcare | Where Does Telehealth Stand?
A lot can be said about the GOP’s plan to repeal the ACA, but what can we expect from these ...
10 Companies That Lost Millions For These Avoidable HIPAA Violations
As Telehealth grows and becomes more relevant to healthcare, so too are the protections around it. Through Telehealth, medical providers ...
Why More States Should Encourage Telemedicine in Schools
For some of the same reasons telemedicine is being welcomed into hospitals, prisons or private practices, we are finding that ...
The Telehealth Resource You Need
Image from Telehealth Resource Centers If you’ve been looking for information on Telehealth (what it’s about, reimbursement details, legal information, ...
Decoding HIPAA’s Security Rule
Photo by IBM Archives In an earlier article we wanted to know the simple differences between the HIPAA Privacy Rule ...
The 9 Standards for HIPAA’s Administrative Safeguards
HIPAA’s definition on Administrative Safeguards: “Administrative actions, and policies and procedures, to manage the selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of ...
The First Major Mental Health Legislation in Nearly a Decade – Ready to be Signed by President Obama
Talks about how to improve mental health have long been swept under the rug and kept there, however earlier this ...
Medicare’s Latest Reason to Not Reimburse You
Beginning October 1, 2012, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) entered a program which required them to reduce ...
The First Standalone Telehealth Bill, Spearheaded by Bipartisan Teamwork
In the coming days the Senate will be voting on S.2873, or more commonly known as the ECHO (“Expanding Capacity ...
Donald Trump Just Got Elected President. What Does This Mean for Telehealth?
There’s a lot of uncertainty going around about what the results of this election mean for the nation; healthcare being ...
The 4 Standards for HIPAA’s Physical Safeguards
HIPAA’s definition on Physical Safeguards: “Administrative actions, and policies and procedures, to manage the selection, development, implementation, and maintenance of security ...
The 5 Standards for HIPAA’s Technical Safeguards
HIPAA’s definition of Technical Safeguards: “The technology and the policy and procedures for its use that protect electronic protected health information ...
HIPAA Privacy vs. HIPAA Security; Whats the Difference?
If you’ve been searching around about HIPAA compliance, you’ve probably seen the terms “Privacy” and “Security”. They both relate to ...
SecureVideo Launches First Responder, A Specialized HIPAA-Compliant Videoconferencing Solution
As the industry leader in HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing, SecureVideo is excited to introduce a groundbreaking new service offering; First Responder was ...
10 Things Your BAA MUST Cover and Why
You already know that you need to have a signed BAA with anyone that handles your Protected Health Information (PHI), ...
When NetBIOS over TCP/IP Name Resolution Stops Working
NetBIOS over TCP/IP, also known as NBT, is a bad idea whose time never should have come. We all know ...
Choosing a HIPAA-compliant Videoconferencing Platform Is Easy When You Know What to Look For
Telemedicine offers a host of benefits to healthcare providers and their patients alike. Providers are able to treat patients quickly ...
Have you considered HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing for your medical office?
More and more health systems across the country are making telehealth — specifically HIPAA-compliant videoconferencing systems available to their patients ...
What You Should Know About Government Back Doors in Medical Videoconferencing
Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook published a letter to Apple customers, in response to an order given by the United ...
Your Healthcare is Changing. Here’s How.
More people are insured, costs are higher, and technology is advancing more rapidly than ever before. As a result of ...
Telehealth is Changing the Way Rural Americans Receive Medical Care
It sure seems like a hassle to schedule a doctor’s appointment. You have to take the morning off from work; ...
Release: Session duration, activity download, and plan updates
This article covers many changes made in the last few months. We’ve received many requests on capturing session duration, and ...
Release: Mobile Friendly, Add to Calendar, and Scheduling for Others
We always try to stay busy at SecureVideo, but we have been REALLY busy the last few months, and will be implementing ...
24/7 support and other upgrades
We’re working on some big projects (spoilers: one of them is about giant changes for your tiny devices!), but we’ve ...
Release: Android Phone Support, Session Recordings, and Windows Desktop Sharing
This article covers our latest deploy as well as another recent deploy, so it has several major updates we’re really ...
Saving Fiddler Responses To Disk
Fiddler is a fantastic tool that allows developers and IT professionals to see what’s happening under the hood when a ...
Mini-release: Customized Time Zones
We’re happy to announce another feature: customized time zones! Now you can send session invitations and reminders to your participants ...
Chrome 35 on Windows 8 and 8.1: Issue launching application
UPDATE: As of Chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 m, this issue has been fixed. If you have a Windows 8 or 8.1 ...
Desktop sharing, notifications, and SecureVideo getting started guide
We have another bundle of new changes, with one feature especially for Windows users: desktop sharing! Previously only a feature ...
Mini-release: new tabs and updated pages
It’s that time again! This mini-release mostly consists of updating our web content. We are hard at work on some ...
American Bar Association Webinar: HIPAA Applies to Lawyers?
The full title of the webinar is actually much catchier: You Mean HIPAA Applies to Lawyers? Keeping Data Safe, Clients ...
HIPAA Compliance, an In-depth Overview
There are four HIPAA rules any one working with ePHI should know about. They are: 1. HIPAA Privacy Rule 2. ...
Text messaging, contacts management, and other upgrades
It’s been a busy month at SecureVideo, and we are thrilled to roll out this deploy. One change we’ve really ...
SecureVideo Safe from the Heartbleed Bug
The Heartbleed Bug, with its suitably ominous name, is a vulnerability in an open-source software called OpenSSL. If you’ve never ...
Telepsychiatry program reduces hospitalizations, increases access to services
Are you practicing (or curious about) telepsychiatry? The North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research (NCCPPR) has just released their ...
A close read of the HIPAA Security Rule
HIPAA established the Security Rule to ensure that all covered entities have implemented safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and ...
Release Notes: March 10, 2014
Not a very (external) release this month, but don’t worry, we still come bearing a gift. While working on customizations ...
How can I be HIPAA compliant?
An overview Before we delve into this topic, a note: this article is not an exhaustive list of all that ...
Release Notes: February 27, 2014
It’s been another month of mostly internal upgrades, although we have two big external changes as well: the release of ...
Release Notes: January 22, 2014
In this last deploy, we implemented a slew of back-end upgrades to the SecureVideo Hub site and our testing environment, ...
SecureVideo January Newsletter
A dull title, but the January edition of our newsletter is actually full of awesome. This month we have: The ...
Release Notes: January 10, 2014
Another week, another set of updates. This deploy was mostly focused on making our SecureVideo Hub more compatible with mobile ...
Release Notes: January 2, 2014
Happy new year, everyone! Here at SecureVideo we’re celebrating both another turn of the sun, and some major changes to ...
Internet Security, a Daily Concern
Yesterday, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked into Skype and Microsoft’s twitter account. The twitter feed read, “Don’t use Microsoft ...
Release Notes: December 26
We hope everyone’s had a good holiday season so far! We’ve made a few adjustments over the past few weeks. ...
Release Notes: December 5, 2013
It has been a busy week! We’ve got a big batch of little (and not-so-little) changes to the SecureVideo site ...
Release Notes: December 4, 2013
We are continually building and working to improve SecureVideo for our customers, and want to make it easier for you ...
How to paste a screenshot from Google Chrome to ASP.NET MVC
If you’re like me, someone who has been building web applications for 15 years or so, then like me, you ...
SecureVideo For Any Professional
Did you know that www.securevideo.com is not just for people in the medical field that need to abide by HIPAA ...
SecureVideo vs. Google Helpouts
Doctor’s visits online? Having multiple carriers to choose from? Are we living in a futuristic time or what?! Like many ...
Can On-Line Therapy Cross State Lines and Remain HIPAA-Compliant?
Suppose a licensed therapist whose office is in Ironwood, Michigan, has a client, referred by the patient’s insurance company, who ...
Snowden Leaks Disclose NSA-Skype Cooperation
In a story that has been developing over the past several weeks, The Guardian disclosed last week that Microsoft has ...
What is a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement, and Why Do I Need One?
If your practice is currently using a medical teleconferencing service (telemed), or if you are considering using one, you should ...
NSA Got Your Data?
NSA got your data? Not from us, they didn’t. As any of us who use the internet with any regularity ...
Implementing JSON Web Tokens in .NET with a Base 64 URL Encoded key
I wasn’t able to find any good technical examples of how to implement JSON Web Tokens (JWT) for .NET when ...
Skype and Microsoft: a HIPAA nightmare
Heise Security, a top German internet security firm, has done some research that will be somewhat frightening to Skype users, ...
Can You Afford a HIPAA Violation?
In June of 2012, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services agreed to pay $1.7 million to the United ...
Informed Consent & Telemental Health
As with mental health services delivered face-to-face, clinicians working through videoconferencing must obtain Informed Consent. The consent must be obtained ...
A Brief History of Telehealth
Telehealth has been the story of a “revolution” that never quite materializes. That has changed, with experts are projecting the ...
So You Think Skype is HIPAA-Compliant?
By Stephen C. Taylor, General Counsel www.securevideo.com HIPAA – or as it is formally known, the Health Insurance Portability and ...
How to make a High Quality Videoconference
By Jonathan (JT) Taylor, Chief Technology Officer www.securevideo.com From a human perspective, a good videoconference is similar to a good ...
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